Moshe Arens

Remembering Moshe Arens three years on: a politician and a mensch - opinion

Rest in peace, Misha. We, who are led by Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, have neither peace nor rest.

 MOSHE ARENS, in 2016: Even those who did not share his principles, respected his perseverance, says the writer.
A memorial candle

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Then-defense minister Moshe Arens answers a reporter’s question during a press conference with Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen in the Pentagon on April 27, 1999

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Moshe Arens

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Remembering Moshe Arens

As defense minister under prime minister Shamir, Arens believed that Israel had to respond militarily to the Iraqi Scud missile attacks on Israel.

FORMER DEFENSE Minister Moshe Arens (center) listens to army former chief of staff Shaul Mofaz during a memorial ceremony in 1999.

Moshe Arens: The man who didn’t want to be prime minister

I met Arens in the late 1970s, when he was a member of Knesset and chaired the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and I was the parliamentary correspondent for Israel Television.

Moshe Arens